My company uses truecrypt on all of our notebooks. We do system encryption and encrypt all usb drives (with travelers mode). We also have truecrypt install on all desktops with containers for sensitive data. Not one of these uses a hidden container. Because of the USB keys, most of us also have truecrypt installed at home (I've been using it for a lot longer then the company and recommended it to them.) It is interesting feature, but gives us no benefit. Would they waterboard our whole company looking for hidden containers? That's a lot of people (hundreds).
How is this different then me starting a company, getting hired by another company to make X for 5000.00 and paying my workers 3000.00 for actually doing it?
The difference is my workers are not local but in india. So the same reason companies don't snipe workers from local business is the same reason they won't just go straight to india.
If microsoft decided to change everything with a rewrite, what choice would they have?
1) Move to the new MS OS. 2) Switch to apple (too expensive for most corps) 3) Move to linux.
Now, with a business probably full of MCSE's. Which option you think is going to be selected?
If they wanted to do it right, they could do a 100% rewrite and use a open development process. This would allow developers the ability to learn as the development happens and keep up to date. Then say in 3-5 years time, if the developer didn't get on board, that developer can only blame themselves.
I have tried this about 2 years ago. I mounted a drive in place of program files to allow for additional space for applications. This really screwed up my system and made it unstable. Eventually I ended up reinstalling windows and just using it as a D drive and installing apps there. That fixed my stability problems.
I ran gentoo for a long time. I did a LFS project once to learn. I eventually got sick of my working on my computer instead of working with my computer. So I switched to ubuntu. That worked for a while, eventually I decided to move to a notebook. After reviewing my options I went with a mac. I intended to install ubuntu on it, however, I have been 100% happy with OSX.
With my dell, I take it to work, plop it down on a docking station and I'm right to work, speakers, networking, keyboard, mouse, monitor, power, all working.
With my mac, I take it home and want to work at my desk. Ok lets find the power cable in my bag and plug that in, ok now where is my network cable? Oh the cat took it under the desk, ok lets climb down there and dig that out. Ok now why won't this usb cable go in? Oh it's upside down, lets flip that over, where is my monitor cable, damn it! Ok, got that hooked up, now lets open the notebook turn it on and close it quickly so it doesn't think I want dual monitors. Ok great, now lets take a break cause I'm tired, I'll work later.
Well when EA announced they were going to have simultaneous releases of pc and mac games they announced they would be using cider for their games. From that point on, all the games EA has released mac versions for have been via cider.
So I'd say it is probably using cider. This backs me up
Personally, I find textMate a much better tool then dreamweaver. If my work allowed me to use mac for development I would be using it at work as well as at home. But for now, at home will suffice.
However, there is no alternative to flash when the project calls for flash. The price tag is very cheap when you compare it to the cost of just dreamweaver CS. For marketing and add people, yes there really isn't much out there that competes with photoshop/inDesign/etc. But for web developers, adobe is way over priced for what you get. This comes from a person who uses dreamweaver at my work every single day.
The point is that there are very good quality free or cheap tools out there, and when faced with the decision of buying them for personal use, you usually don't go the expensive route. Those same people are later going to make recommendations to their companies on what to buy. They will probably recommend what they are already comfortable with. I used vi forever for my work. Until I was forced to discover the advantages of using programs that are more then just text editors, I would of recommended vi to anyone who asked me the best tool for programing. The reason? because I already knew it, and trying to learn to use some IDE required me to rethink my work flow, and that is annoying when you have real work to do.
I recently bought a copy of textMate for my mac. I was doing just fine with free tools, but I tried it out and decided it was worth the cash.
My work buys me adobe CS suite. Personally, if I needed to do work like that at home, I would never pay that much, I'd just free or cheap alternatives.
True, microsoft would get crap. However, I see things like this as almost required for companies to move forward. If microsoft would break more backwards compatibility I think it would be a better OS.
I think the problems apple has had lately is more of growing pains. They made a huge switch from PPC to x86 to x86_64 in a very short time. Hopefully they will let the current code base mature a while before making any more life altering changes to their OS.
Its actually both the fault of the router makers and windows. Microsoft is at fault for 'changing' the standard, and the router makers are at fault for having a bug in their software that causes the router to crash when it gets something like that. BOTH of them should fix it.
It's a very mixed shop. We do development mostly on windows (although I use a mac). Our servers consist of a ton of solaris, a lot of linux, and some novell servers. Most of our work is targeted to the solaris servers (mostly java and we use some php on our website).
We are going to investigate git before we make a decision, but from what I'm reading SVN might be best for us. We have a lot of users who are more comfortable with dreamweaver then a terminal, so SVN's gui tools will fit them better.
Yea, we really like the TortoiseSVN. Plus we have a need to store a lot of graphics and other binary files in our repo as well as code (we do a lot of web development and want to keep all resources together). I think SVN is still our best bet.
Well lets look at it from what has happened in the past.
Microsoft supplies IE, but you are free to easily go get any other browser you want. The internet cries out against microsoft.
Apple supplies safari, no outcry
Ubuntu gives us firefox, no outcry
Now lets look at media player same thing.
Microsoft has never stopped anyone from using the software of their choice, but by shipping software with their OS, people cry monopoly. Unless you are suggesting Microsoft ship 3 or 4 different versions of each type of software they want to include, that would just be silly.
I know what you are saying. Lucky for me, all your reasons are actually reasons I like the mac.
I gave up gaming on computers, it simply is not worth it. I use my xbox 360 and wii for that now and I'm having a much better experience. No drm that requires me to shut down tools just to play a game, no constant upgrade mill to get the latest graphics, etc. All my favorite windows games run on mac anyways (either via wine/cider or native)
I actually like the hotkeys much better on mac. Sure it really pissed me off at first, but the fact that they are so constant across programs rules (command-, for example). Sure it would be nice to be able to remap them, but that is not an issue to me at this point my hands do what they are supose to do on each OS.
I love the interface, i'm finding that I no longer work with apps fullscreen on linux and windows now. I'm more productive now as well (I think it is because i'm not constantly switching windows to read documentation and such. I also love that I can close the app but leave it running (like itunes). A simple command-w and the app is gone but still running, very nice if I know I'm going to use it again but don't want to clutter up the dock and very nice for programs that I use headless (like iTunes). But as you said, it's a personal thing, not a technical one.
As for backspace, I know exactly what you are saying, which is why I use a external keyboard (the apple one) when I'm at home. Although I think you have it backwards, delete is backspace and function-delete is what we think of as actual delete. But on my fullsize keyboard at home, you have both keys (just named delete and a funny icon and delete) in the places you would expect them as a touch typer and they work exactly like every other OS (only backspace says delete on it). Not an issue to me, but I can see how it throws people off.
My real pet peeve is the home/end keys. I am very programed to use home/end as a programer. They do not function as expected. They function more like page up/page down. It has been hard for me to replace this with command-arrow right/left. There is a way for me to change this, but I have decided to learn to deal with it.
As for software, yea repo would be nice (although for most open source software there is macports and the like). However I find that with sites like http://www.macupdate.com/http://osx.iusethis.com/ and ttp://www.versiontracker.com I have no problem finding all the software I need.
I think it is just like migrating from windows to linux, you have to give up your thoughts on how things are done and learn the (insert os here) way.
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My company uses truecrypt on all of our notebooks. We do system encryption and encrypt all usb drives (with travelers mode). We also have truecrypt install on all desktops with containers for sensitive data. Not one of these uses a hidden container. Because of the USB keys, most of us also have truecrypt installed at home (I've been using it for a lot longer then the company and recommended it to them.) It is interesting feature, but gives us no benefit. Would they waterboard our whole company looking for hidden containers? That's a lot of people (hundreds).
I think this fits the bill.
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/files/TCExplorer.aspx
You get better deals then we do in the education sector.
My dell (same specs as my mbp only with a intel video) 2000.00, my mbp 2500.00
How is this different then me starting a company, getting hired by another company to make X for 5000.00 and paying my workers 3000.00 for actually doing it?
The difference is my workers are not local but in india. So the same reason companies don't snipe workers from local business is the same reason they won't just go straight to india.
If microsoft decided to change everything with a rewrite, what choice would they have?
1) Move to the new MS OS.
2) Switch to apple (too expensive for most corps)
3) Move to linux.
Now, with a business probably full of MCSE's. Which option you think is going to be selected?
If they wanted to do it right, they could do a 100% rewrite and use a open development process. This would allow developers the ability to learn as the development happens and keep up to date. Then say in 3-5 years time, if the developer didn't get on board, that developer can only blame themselves.
I have tried this about 2 years ago. I mounted a drive in place of program files to allow for additional space for applications. This really screwed up my system and made it unstable. Eventually I ended up reinstalling windows and just using it as a D drive and installing apps there. That fixed my stability problems.
Never could figure it out.
I'm with you.
I ran gentoo for a long time. I did a LFS project once to learn. I eventually got sick of my working on my computer instead of working with my computer. So I switched to ubuntu. That worked for a while, eventually I decided to move to a notebook. After reviewing my options I went with a mac. I intended to install ubuntu on it, however, I have been 100% happy with OSX.
Now my computer 'just works'.
My job is mostly php/javascript and java work.
With my dell, I take it to work, plop it down on a docking station and I'm right to work, speakers, networking, keyboard, mouse, monitor, power, all working.
With my mac, I take it home and want to work at my desk. Ok lets find the power cable in my bag and plug that in, ok now where is my network cable? Oh the cat took it under the desk, ok lets climb down there and dig that out. Ok now why won't this usb cable go in? Oh it's upside down, lets flip that over, where is my monitor cable, damn it! Ok, got that hooked up, now lets open the notebook turn it on and close it quickly so it doesn't think I want dual monitors. Ok great, now lets take a break cause I'm tired, I'll work later.
Well when EA announced they were going to have simultaneous releases of pc and mac games they announced they would be using cider for their games. From that point on, all the games EA has released mac versions for have been via cider.
So I'd say it is probably using cider. This backs me up
http://www.tuaw.com/2008/02/15/will-wright-mac-users-will-love-spore/
Being EA the mac port is just the windows version wrapped in Cider. Which means it should run just fine in wine.
Copy protection killed MY pc gaming. I said screw it and stopped buying games. It wasn't worth the hassle.
Now I just play console games on my 50 inch tv.
Well with EA releasing it, that means mac support will be though cider which is basically a cedega wrapper for mac.
I'd bet that this will run just as well on linux via cedega/wine as it does on mac.
Personally, I find textMate a much better tool then dreamweaver. If my work allowed me to use mac for development I would be using it at work as well as at home. But for now, at home will suffice.
However, there is no alternative to flash when the project calls for flash. The price tag is very cheap when you compare it to the cost of just dreamweaver CS. For marketing and add people, yes there really isn't much out there that competes with photoshop/inDesign/etc. But for web developers, adobe is way over priced for what you get. This comes from a person who uses dreamweaver at my work every single day.
The point is that there are very good quality free or cheap tools out there, and when faced with the decision of buying them for personal use, you usually don't go the expensive route. Those same people are later going to make recommendations to their companies on what to buy. They will probably recommend what they are already comfortable with. I used vi forever for my work. Until I was forced to discover the advantages of using programs that are more then just text editors, I would of recommended vi to anyone who asked me the best tool for programing. The reason? because I already knew it, and trying to learn to use some IDE required me to rethink my work flow, and that is annoying when you have real work to do.
I recently bought a copy of textMate for my mac. I was doing just fine with free tools, but I tried it out and decided it was worth the cash.
My work buys me adobe CS suite. Personally, if I needed to do work like that at home, I would never pay that much, I'd just free or cheap alternatives.
I wouldn't own one if it was free. I find the idea of a greasy glass chunk of crap in my pocket annoying.
Of course I find most pda type handsets worthless. I just want battary life and the ability to make cheap phone calls. Nothing more.
My friend has one though, and it is always covered in fingerprints and other nastiness. I don't even want to hold it to my face.
True, microsoft would get crap. However, I see things like this as almost required for companies to move forward. If microsoft would break more backwards compatibility I think it would be a better OS.
I think the problems apple has had lately is more of growing pains. They made a huge switch from PPC to x86 to x86_64 in a very short time. Hopefully they will let the current code base mature a while before making any more life altering changes to their OS.
If Linus murders, it's obviously for the good of all of us. Just accept it.
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This is Guy Richie and there is nothing he can do about it.
Its actually both the fault of the router makers and windows. Microsoft is at fault for 'changing' the standard, and the router makers are at fault for having a bug in their software that causes the router to crash when it gets something like that. BOTH of them should fix it.
It's a very mixed shop. We do development mostly on windows (although I use a mac). Our servers consist of a ton of solaris, a lot of linux, and some novell servers. Most of our work is targeted to the solaris servers (mostly java and we use some php on our website).
We are going to investigate git before we make a decision, but from what I'm reading SVN might be best for us. We have a lot of users who are more comfortable with dreamweaver then a terminal, so SVN's gui tools will fit them better.
Yea, we really like the TortoiseSVN. Plus we have a need to store a lot of graphics and other binary files in our repo as well as code (we do a lot of web development and want to keep all resources together). I think SVN is still our best bet.
Well lets look at it from what has happened in the past.
Microsoft supplies IE, but you are free to easily go get any other browser you want. The internet cries out against microsoft.
Apple supplies safari, no outcry
Ubuntu gives us firefox, no outcry
Now lets look at media player same thing.
Microsoft has never stopped anyone from using the software of their choice, but by shipping software with their OS, people cry monopoly. Unless you are suggesting Microsoft ship 3 or 4 different versions of each type of software they want to include, that would just be silly.
such as what?
Seriously, We are looking at setting up SVN for our source code management.
I know what you are saying. Lucky for me, all your reasons are actually reasons I like the mac.
I gave up gaming on computers, it simply is not worth it. I use my xbox 360 and wii for that now and I'm having a much better experience. No drm that requires me to shut down tools just to play a game, no constant upgrade mill to get the latest graphics, etc. All my favorite windows games run on mac anyways (either via wine/cider or native)
I actually like the hotkeys much better on mac. Sure it really pissed me off at first, but the fact that they are so constant across programs rules (command-, for example). Sure it would be nice to be able to remap them, but that is not an issue to me at this point my hands do what they are supose to do on each OS.
I love the interface, i'm finding that I no longer work with apps fullscreen on linux and windows now. I'm more productive now as well (I think it is because i'm not constantly switching windows to read documentation and such. I also love that I can close the app but leave it running (like itunes). A simple command-w and the app is gone but still running, very nice if I know I'm going to use it again but don't want to clutter up the dock and very nice for programs that I use headless (like iTunes). But as you said, it's a personal thing, not a technical one.
As for backspace, I know exactly what you are saying, which is why I use a external keyboard (the apple one) when I'm at home. Although I think you have it backwards, delete is backspace and function-delete is what we think of as actual delete. But on my fullsize keyboard at home, you have both keys (just named delete and a funny icon and delete) in the places you would expect them as a touch typer and they work exactly like every other OS (only backspace says delete on it). Not an issue to me, but I can see how it throws people off.
My real pet peeve is the home/end keys. I am very programed to use home/end as a programer. They do not function as expected. They function more like page up/page down. It has been hard for me to replace this with command-arrow right/left. There is a way for me to change this, but I have decided to learn to deal with it.
As for software, yea repo would be nice (although for most open source software there is macports and the like). However I find that with sites like http://www.macupdate.com/ http://osx.iusethis.com/ and ttp://www.versiontracker.com I have no problem finding all the software I need.
I think it is just like migrating from windows to linux, you have to give up your thoughts on how things are done and learn the (insert os here) way.
As a professional software developer and college system administrator, I disagree.